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An Update on Exam JuJu

I have posted previously about the juju of certification exams.  Because the results of one of the exams I wrote in April were announced today I was looking at my transcripts, and I noticed one other interesting commonality that I had never noticed before.

With this exam I have now passed eleven unique cert exams.  I only noticed today that I passed them all – without exception – at Pearson Vue exam centres.

I have registered for five exams at Prometric sites.  I failed one, one I could not make the appointment, one was cancelled before I took it, and one was cancelled before I took it.  I did pass the fifth one, but it was the beta exam for the new version of an exam that I had already passed, so it does not really count (unless we were to push my Passed exams to twelve, which doesn’t work).

Now that is not to say that I have passed every exam I sat for at Pearson Vue… there are four fails on that transcript, with my one and only re-fail so three unique exams.  It is certainly not a perfect transcript; however eleven of fifteen is much better than zero of four, or I suppose zero of three if you want to give Prometric a walk on the exam that Microsoft cancelled.

Looking at the other side of the same coin, I have only failed one exam at Prometric, with four fails at Pearson Vue.  I guess statisticians can skew numbers to say what they want them to say, so maybe I won’t add this to the juju column, and stick with my Jolly Ranchers which, by the by, I did not have for 70-621, the exam that I found out I passed today.  Hmmm… Curious.  Maybe exam success depends more on what I know and how well prepared I am than any silly superstition?  Maybe I can wear what I want, bring what I want, and not worry about juju at all!

…on second thought maybe I’ll continue to prepare, and keep bringing the JRs… just in case!

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